F2FS: A New File System for Flash Storage

By C. Lee, Do-Yoon Sim, J. Hwang, Sangyeun Cho. USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies, 2015

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SCORE (2018, background): “…one hand, SSDs are widely used to serve read-critical workloads with limited random writes [19, 40, 55, 60, 72, 75] and many popular applications and file systems are designed to transform random writes to sequential writes (such as log-structured file systems and key-value stores) [37, 43, 52].”
WiscKey (2016, background): “Similar to hard drives, random writes are considered harmful also in SSDs [Arpaci-Dusseau and Arpaci-Dusseau 2014; Kim et al. 2012; Lee et al. 2015; Min et al. 2012] due to their unique erase-write cycle and expensive garbage collection.”
NOVA: A Log-structured File System for Hybrid Volatile/Non-volatile Main Memories (2016, background): “F2FS [30] uses multi-head logging, writes metadata and data to separate logs, and writes new data directly to free space in dirty segments at high disk utilization to avoid frequent garbage collection.”